One of my favorite network tool websites is YouGetSignal.com and recently I was using their open port tester to ensure my port forwarding rules were working. I started wondering how difficult it would be to setup an open port tester using PHP and turns out it was really easy…

PHP version 5 (5.6.38) officially reached end-of-life on December 31st, 2018. This affects countless websites that are powered by popular PHP/MySQL based content management systems such as WordPress, Drupal, ExpressionEngine, CraftCMS and many others…

You can do everything with shell scripts! Anything you can do from your terminal, you can do with a shell script, and if you like you can enable a cronjob to schedule the execution of your shell scripts. In this post, I'm going to cover the basics on getting up and running with shell scripts on either Mac or Linux systems.…

Many people aren’t aware that you can easily send a text message to your friends, family and business associates using your email address. This functionality is termed an Email-To-SMS Gateway and must be supported by your wireless provider. Don’t worry all major providers support this feature. You can use the reference below…

Axosoft, the team behind the amazing GitKraken Git client, has recently released a task manager/issue tracker for developers and professionals and it’s AWESOME! I recently switched from Wunderlist to Glo Boards and have literally seen an increase in my productivity…

The robots.txt file is a standard that allows webmasters to convey to search engines whether or not their website (or specific pages or directories of it) should allow the crawling of search engine spiders like Googlebot, Bing Bot, MSN Bot and the Baidu Spider…